Sketching Architecture Essentials

April 5, 2016
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A lot of people equate sketching architecture with perspective. “I am no good at drawing buildings because I can’t do perspective!” they say. But there is a whole lot more to sketching buildings than mastering perspective!

I am passionate about explaining to sketchers how buildings are put together:

  • how to view them as volumes and then look for added and subtracted elements
  • how to work in a structured way
  • how to allow for thickness and depths.

These blog posts include some of the important principles I sketch by!

I also explain these concepts in more detail in my SketchingNow Buildings online course. Click here  for more details

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